Category : Imaginative Education (IE): Activities & Insights

By Karen Effa (Educator, MEd in IE; IE mentor) One of the benefits of being on sabbatical is a mind freed from the swirl of tomorrow’s lesson plans, providing the quiet needed to contemplate the how and why of shifts that took place in students’ psyches during certain classes. Today, I would like to share […]Read More

I hope you continue to follow along on our IE adventure! The Heroic Classroom: September 12 Heroic Quality of the Day: Perseverance Today was a great day.  I started my Tangram lesson with the class.  I have done this as a September lesson for years now.  We look at: The exclamations and groans that came […]Read More

I hope you continue to follow along on our IE adventure! The Heroic Classroom: September 10 Heroic Quality of the Day: Flexibility-ish and a Rant My school is having growing pains.  We are now at population of close to 700. With yet another full classroom added this week, my numbers have shifted and I am […]Read More

The Heroic Classroom: September 6 Heroic Quality of the Day: Trust I have found that starting the year with a whole class Novel Study is essential for building community.  I find that a really important part of running Novel Study is to have each and every child in the class read aloud from the chapter […]Read More

By Al Rudnitsky (Professor of Education & Child Study, Smith College) The speed at which many children’s informal knowledge of mathematics becomes separated from the more formal math they encounter in school is a challenge for math educators.   As Jo Boaler says (2008), “Over time school children realize that when you enter Mathsland you leave […]Read More